Naruto

Early the next morning, after Naruto took stock of the necessities required for his mission, he left Konoha Village with his envoy and set off along the path to Iwagakure Village. After marching continuously for 600 kilometers, the three genin felt that

Somewhat exhausted, he sat on the ground panting.

"You guys can drink some water and refresh yourself. We'll have lunch at the next settlement." The young jounin took out a cowhide water bottle from his backpack and threw it to Fengji Moehuang.

"Thank... thank you, Brother Naruto." Menghuang took the water bag and took turns with the other two friends to drink a large mouthful of light salt water.

"Hmm... It seems that I have to arrange some special training for your physical fitness in the future." Naruto shook his head in disgust, opened the world map, frowned and said, "The next town is far away.

We still have a hundred kilometers here, can you hold on?"

"Stop looking down on people, Naruto-nii!" Konohamaru wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeves and stood up unsteadily, "We are not those losers who shrink away when encountering difficulties.

!”

"That's right!" Moehuang and Udon stood beside Konohamaru, with firm expressions on their faces, and agreed in unison.

The young jounin smiled happily and was about to say a few words of encouragement when he suddenly heard Inuzuka Kiba's excited voice: "I can smell the aroma of food! There should be a village behind this bush, we can go there

Take a rest."

"Really?" Naruto raised his eyebrows and glanced at the three genin who looked surprised. After pondering for a while, he nodded slightly: "Then let's take a rest there."

"Akamaru and I will go first. You can slowly bring these three brats over here." Ya patted the ninja dog on the head, and in a flash, he rushed into the woods ahead.

"Hey, wait for us!" Naruto looked at the three genin who were barely able to stand, and summoned three shadow clones. One clone picked up a genin on its back, and chased towards Kiba along with Shikamaru and the main body.

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Through the dense bushes, rows of vermilion brick houses appeared in front of everyone. An old man sat on the bluestone steps in front of the house, holding an old pipe in his hand, puffing away smoke;

The men who had been working on the farm all morning gathered under the big banyan tree in the center of the village, drinking strong tea and chatting; the women

People were busy around the stove, and the fragrance of the food floated into everyone's noses through the breeze. In front of the fence at the entrance of the village, Ya Zheng stood next to a middle-aged man with a simple and honest appearance, beckoning to everyone excitedly.

Started: "Hey! Naruto, the village chief here said he is willing to host us for lunch!"

"Come on, come on!" Naruto brought Konohamaru, Moehuang, Udon and Shikamaru to the two of them, smiled and saluted the middle-aged man with his fists in his hands, "Thank you, Uncle Village Chief!"

"Oh, it's rare for outsiders to come to our place, let alone the ninjas of Konoha. It's too late for us to be happy that you can rest here." The village chief looked at Naruto's attire, and a look of enthusiasm appeared on his dark face.

With a brimming smile, he said, "You are already chuunin and jounin at such a young age. You must have experienced many exciting missions, right? When you have dinner later, you must tell the people in the village stories about the outside world.

"

"No problem!" Naruto smiled and agreed to the village chief's request, "However, I still have a question that I would like to ask uncle."

"What's the problem?" the village chief asked strangely.

"Who sent you to assassinate me?"

Before he finished speaking, Naruto had already rushed to the village chief and hit the latter's abdomen with the rotating chakra ball in his right palm.

"Rasengan!"

To Naruto's surprise, the moment the village chief's body was attacked, he suddenly turned into a swarm of black poisonous insects. The swarm of insects instantly bit through Naruto's tailed beast coat and gnawed at the flesh on his forearms.

.Naruto clenched his right fist, and a ball of white flames emerged from his arm, burning all the poisonous insects into ashes. After the flames dissipated, everyone saw the dense blood holes on his arms, and the ones that were scorched by the flames.

skin.

"Naruto brother!" Menghuang screamed in horror.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Naruto jumped up and avoided several darts fired from the village.

"I didn't expect you to see through my disguise at a glance, Uzumaki Naruto." A simple-looking farmer opened the lid of the teapot. A group of black flying ants flew out of the teapot and split into two groups; they pounced on Naruto all the way.

They all pounced on the three genin.

"Fire Release? Ashes Burn!" Konohamaru formed a seal with both hands and sprayed out a large cloud of high-temperature gray smoke, covering the incoming flying ants. Immediately afterwards, Shikamaru and Moehuang simultaneously threw a detonator towards the smoke cloud.

After the deafening explosion, raging fire engulfed the ant colony that rushed towards the three genin.

Just when everyone was secretly satisfied with their tacit cooperation, a dazzling lightning suddenly fell from the sky and disappeared into the burning fire cloud. They looked up and saw Naruto floating in the air, purple thunder light

Jumping between the palm and fingers of his left hand. And where he was originally on the ground,

A large area of ​​twitching flying ants was already lying there.

"These bugs are not afraid of fire." Naruto explained softly to everyone, then turned his attention to the group of well-trained killers in the center of the village, "I ask you again, who wants my life?

?”

"How many people in the ninja world see you as a savior hero, just as many people see you as a thorn in their flesh. Uzumaki Naruto, whose name do you want to hear?" Countless thousands of books, shurikens, kunai, water bombs,

The fire bullets came towards Naruto, but they were all intercepted by the invisible force field released by his left hand, without exception.

"This... what kind of ninjutsu is this?"

Naruto wordlessly raised his blackened right hand, and countless small ice blades condensed into a high-speed rotating shuriken in his palm. The thin blade of the shuriken continued to cut the surrounding air,

There was a sharp neighing sound.

"Immortal magic? Ice escape? Super large jade spiral shuriken!"

A massive ice storm erupted from where the Rasen Shuriken hit the ground. All the houses, debris, and people within the Senjutsu range were first frozen into hard ice sculptures in an instant, and then were frozen by tiny ice blades.

It was cut into countless pieces. The howling cold wind hovered over the village and could not stop for a long time.

"Not bad, you can be proud of yourself for being able to save a life under my full blow." A golden chain covered with black runes suddenly appeared from Naruto's chest, inserted into the soil, and rolled up

He met a man in black who kept twisting his body, "It's a pity that I won't give you a second chance to show off."

"Wait! Don't you want to know..." The man in black twisted his body and shouted loudly.

"It's too late." The runes on the chain suddenly glowed brightly, and the chakra from the man in black was forcibly extracted. After being purified by the runes, it continuously poured into Naruto's body. Only ten seconds later, the man in black

He was bleeding from all his orifices, his head was tilted, and he lost all signs of life.

The young Jonin landed on the ground, pulled out a scroll from the body of the man in black, and put it into his bag. Then he formed a seal with his left hand and spit out a huge fire ball from his mouth, burning his body into pieces.

ash.

"I never had any intention of letting you leave alive from the beginning."

Konohamaru bravely walked behind the young man and said timidly: "Naru...Naruto-chan, your expression just now was so scary."

"Since you have embarked on the road of ninja, you must get used to these things as soon as possible." Naruto put his intact left hand on Konohamaru's shoulder and walked back to where everyone was with him.

"What are you used to?"

"Fighting, killing and death." The young jounin seemed to transform into an old man who had experienced many vicissitudes of life, and sighed softly.

"Naruto, is your hand okay?" Inuzuka Kiba walked up to him quickly and looked at him with concern.

"It's okay, Tooth." Naruto raised his charred right arm, took off his backpack, and took out alcohol, cotton balls, tweezers, scalpel and gauze, "I need to treat the wound, why don't you guys do it first?

Let’s rest here for a while.”

Inuzuka Kiba lowered his head and said: "The 'Village Chief' just now, if you hadn't rescued us in time, both Akamaru and I would have been dead by now, right?"

Naruto summoned a shadow clone and poured alcohol on his right arm: "Their target is me, you don't need to blame yourself too much, Ya. Besides, if we get along in a different place, wouldn't you be equally desperate?"

Save me?"

"But I..." Ya clenched his fists and hesitated to speak.

"I know that you didn't notice the enemy's trap this time and almost fell into it, so you are unwilling to do so. Turn this unwillingness into motivation for practice, Ya. I believe that as long as you work hard, you will be able to surpass your mother and sister.

, and become the best Ninja user in the history of Konoha." Naruto turned his head, with an encouraging look on his face.

Ya's eyes fell on his friend's hideous wound, he swallowed his habitual words of "Who cares?" and said sincerely: "Thank you, Naruto."

"You're welcome, Kiba." Naruto replied with a smile.

"Why did you insist on killing that assassin just now?" Shikamaru asked with a frown as he looked back at the storm that still didn't stop.

Naruto's face suddenly darkened: "In order to prevent me from noticing anything unusual, the assassin dewormed all the brains of more than a hundred people in the entire village last night. Those normal things you just saw

The active villagers are actually a group of empty shells without souls." At this point, he took a deep breath.

, picked up the scalpel and began to clean up the rotten flesh around his wound. The scalps of the three genin were numb for a while, "Ninjas are a profession that licks blood from the edge of the knife. If he just wants my life, I will spare him as much as I can."

He killed a group of ordinary people who had no power to fight back. What do you think I would do if I kept such a scum?"

"Well done, brother!" After listening to Naruto's description, Konohamaru waved his fist in anger, "If you commit such a heinous crime, even if you are taken back to Konoha Village, you will definitely die."

No, Konoha will let him use the insect control technique in exchange for a chance to survive. When Danzo was in charge of Roots a few years ago, he might even absorb such talents into his team. Otherwise, do you think I

Why are you so anxious to kill him here? The young jounin didn't show anything on his face, but he secretly cursed a few words in his heart.

"Brother Naruto, who ordered this assassin?" Udon approached Naruto, pushed up his glasses, and asked with a stern face.

"No one ordered it." The young Jonin sighed, and asked the shadow clone to take out the scroll he just found from the assassin's body from the bag, and handed it to Udon, "You can see for yourselves."

Udon unfolded the scroll and read the text on it softly: "List of gold exchange prey. The first one, Uzumaki Naruto, reward: two... There are a few zeros here, let me count... two billion taels!

"

"Do you know why? Someone directly used the entire year's financial income of the Daming Palace of the Fire Country to put a bounty on my head. The money is so touching." Naruto wrapped his wound with gauze and chuckled,

"I've never seen so much money in my life."

"The money exchange, where is that place?" Menghuang asked curiously.

Shikamaru explained in a low voice to the three genin: "To put it simply, the gold exchange is a transnational underground organization that is tacitly approved by the Five Shadows and the Five Great Names. It specializes in issuing information to wandering samurai, ninjas and rebellious ninjas who do not officially belong.

Mission. Among them, bounties are a very important part of their business. It can be said that all the masters from the major ninja villages except Kage are on the list. It's only two billion taels... Tsk, I remember Asuma-sensei only has three thousand and five thousand taels.

A reward of one million, right? I really don’t know which big benefactor you have provoked."

The young Jonin shrugged: "Who knows? I can't get the money anyway, so I don't care."

"Wait a minute, Brother Shikamaru, you just said that this is an organization that the Five Kage and the five daimyo have tacitly approved of?" Konohamaru asked in shock, "Why would they cooperate with these criminals?"

"Because there are countless dirty jobs in various countries and ninja villages that they don't want to do themselves, and those homeless people who are idle all day long but have outstanding military skills also need someone to find work for them to prevent them from harming ordinary people." Naruto sighed.

He took a breath and said, "A person as crazy as the assassin just now is just an exception after all."

"Can……"

"Nothing in the world is black and white. You will gradually see it in the future. If you really can't figure it out, then wait until you return to Konoha after this mission and ask the third generation grandpa." Naruto touched.

He touched Konohamaru's head and said earnestly.

"It seems that we can only fill our stomachs with military food pills today." Inuzuka Kiba took out a small transparent plastic jar from his backpack and distributed the black balls inside to everyone, "This is Xianglin

She made it with her own hands."

The so-called Bingliang Pills are equivalent to the compressed biscuits in the ninja world. The only difference is that the Bingliang Pills are smaller in size but have a higher energy density.

"Thank you, but I don't need to eat." Naruto shook his head and declined Kiba's kindness.

"Ah? When did you become a god who doesn't eat fireworks from the world?" Inuzuka Kiba said dubiously.

"Eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping are not necessary for me now." The young jounin looked at the sky with his hands behind his hands, looking at the white clouds with a gold edge framed by the sun, "I usually

These activities are just for the fun of it.”

"...Pretend I didn't say anything." Inuzuka Kiba angrily put the military food pill belonging to Naruto back into the jar.

"By the way, how is Sister Xianglin doing now?" Naruto asked softly as Kiba squatted on the ground and fed Akamaru.

Naruto was startled as soon as Kiba spoke: "She and Shino came together."

Aburame Shino? Isn’t that a boring gourd who deals with bugs every day? How could Sister Kaoru get along with him?

"When we were on the same team before, Shino got along relatively well with her. Now that Xiang Rin is in the medical team, Shino often uses bugs to help Xiang Rin absorb the toxins in the patients' bodies. After going back and forth, there is naturally a basis for a relationship.

." He replied without raising his head.

"So that's it." A smile appeared on Naruto's face, "I hope they can all find their own happiness."

"Okay, everyone is almost rested, let's go." After feeding Akamaru, Yapa clapped his hands and stood up, scratching his hair, "I can't wait to go to Iwagakure Village to take a bath

Nice hot bath.”

"Moehuang, Udon, Konohamaru, have you all rested?" Naruto turned around and asked Gao Sheng.

"We have all adjusted to the best condition, Naruto-nii! We are ready to go at any time!" Konohamaru replied angrily.

"Then let's continue on the road," the young Jonin raised his right arm wrapped in gauze and said energetically, "Target: Iwagakure Village in the Land of Earth."

"Set off!"